Economic Theory

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Realizing Equality in Policy

Edited by Alexander Kaufman
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Economics, Economic Theory, Public Policy

Questioning the policy implications of contemporary theories of egalitarian justice

Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

The Dangerous Class

The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat

By Clyde Barrow
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory, Class Studies

The lumpenstate dystopia of the Trump/Brexit era

Institutions and Economic Theory

The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics

2nd Edition

By Eirik G. Furubotn & Rudolf Richter
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the NIE with a critical assessment of its theoretical contributions

Altruistically Inclined?

The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity

By Alexander J. Field
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An exploration of the role of altruism in the discipline of economics

Race, Liberalism, and Economics

Edited by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch, and Falguni A. Sheth
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Political Science

Explores how economic reasoning relates to the broader concepts of liberalism and racism

Socialism After Hayek

By Theodore A. Burczak
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Philosophy, System -- Development
Series: Advances in Heterodox Economics

Develops an ethical and economically feasible model of socialism, based on a novel synthesis of Hayekian market process theory, Marxian class theory, and an Aristotelian theory of justice

The Great Depression

An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies

By Thomas E. Hall & J. David Ferguson
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Macro Economics

A concise analysis of the economic policy mistakes that led to the Great Depression and the consequences that followed

Growth Triumphant

The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective

By Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like

Integrity and Agreement

Economics When Principles Also Matter

By Alanson Minkler
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, System -- Development
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Moral principle---not mere self-interest---drives rational decision making

The Street Porter and the Philosopher

Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism

By Sandra Peart & David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Philosophy, History, Intellectual History

Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings

Future Directions for Heterodox Economics

Edited by Robert Garnett & John Harvey
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Advances in Heterodox Economics

A comprehensive survey of the current state—and future direction—of heterodox economic thought

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

In Defense of Monopoly

How Market Power Fosters Creative Production

By Richard B. McKenzie & Dwight R. Lee
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Economy, Law, Business

A provocative defense of market dominance

Readings in Public Choice Economics

Edited by Jac C. Heckelman
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Political Science, Law

The first classroom book for undergraduate courses in public choice analysis, covering both political economy and social choice issues

Signaling Goodness

Social Rules and Public Choice

By Phillip J. Nelson & Kenneth V. Greene
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

A new approach to analyzing political and charitable behavior posits that morality significantly affects that behavior

Volatile States

Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies

By William Mark Crain
Subjects: Economics, Macro Economics, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Economy

New research reevaluates the disparities in economic growth and living standards among American states

Economics as a Social Science

An Approach to Nonautistic Theory

By Andrew M. Kamarck
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Sociology, Political Science

Rescues economic theory from mathematics, restoring a realistic approach to human motivations and behavior in the real world economy

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

By Julian Lincoln Simon
Edited by Timur Kuran
Foreword by Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, History, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Illuminates and explains the emergence of modern economic development in Western Europe after the seventeenth century

Polycentric Games and Institutions

Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

Edited by Michael Dean McGinnis
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Political Methodology

Uses game theory to model institutions

Choice-Free Rationality

A Positive Theory of Political Behavior

By Robert Grafstein
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Philosophy, Economics, Economic Theory

Offers an alternative to the definition of 'rationality' for rational choice theory

Essays in History

Financial, Economic, Personal

By Charles P. Kindleberger
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, International Economics, Business
Series: Studies in International Economics

Classic Kindleberger: Engaging and stimulating reading on eclectic topics in finance, economics, and the life of this captivating author

Wages, Welfare Costs and Inflation in Classical Athens

By William T. Loomis
Subjects: Classical Studies, History, Archaeology, Economics, Economic Theory

A seminal reference and analysis of wages and costs in Athens

Comparative Law and Economics

By Ugo Mattei
Subjects: Law, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Economic Theory

The book links the study of comparative law with the study of law and economics

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